Assignment: Answer the following prompt in a 2-3 page, double-spaced, 12-point font essay. Organize your essay into clear paragraphs with an introduction, body, and conclusion. The purpose of the assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to critically examine the intersection between sports, race, and American culture.
For this essay on Georgia Tech and the 1956 Sugar Bowl, students must demonstrate that they have read Lane Demas’ chapter, “We Play Anyone: Deciphering the Racial Politics of Georgia Football and the 1956 Sugar Bowl Controversy.” This assignment is worth up to 25 points. Due: October 14 by 11:59 p.m. EST.
Prompt:
Historian Lane Demas argues that the debate surrounding Georgia Tech’s participation in the 1956 Sugar Bowl and “the subsequent backlash of most whites in the state—reveals tension not only between progress and Jim Crow but also among segregationists themselves.” In what ways did the Sugar Bowl controversy represent “an important politicized episode that enriches our understanding of the struggle to integrate schools, buses, and voting booths?” In your answer, be sure to discuss the importance of college football in the South and how the sport became entangled in the broader civil rights movement.
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